[EdnaMode]

The founding fathers wanted Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia and Detroit to determine every single presidential election?

[OrangeHoof]

From now on, if someone wants to diss the Electoral College, just agree with but say a national popular vote is too unwieldy (imagine the nightmare of a nationwide recount) and too easy to rig. I think you should suggest a one county/one vote form of election.

The beauty is that it sounds fair so a lot of low-info voters would approve.

[RedMonqey]

"Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) claims the system was designed to help the slave states.”

Nahy, Steve. That would be the Democratic Party, you one you are in. It was formed to keep tghe white man in charge whether by slavery or the KKK.

But that never bothered you, did it?

[neverevergiveup]

Dear Joshua. In reality, it's not the ‘electoral’ college that is a failure, but the current iteration of ‘colleges’ as institutions of free-thought and intellectual pursuit that are undeniable failures. It is university-based ‘intellectualism’ that is a pathetic failure. Colleges have become the anti-compasses for finding one’s way to enlightenment.

As the recent shameful college admissions scandal has illustrated, universities are clearly not beacons of moralism and propriety. The Founding Fathers, who lived during a time when colleges were often founded as divinity schools, would be appalled at what institutions such as Wagner where you are a ‘fellow’ have become - echo chambers and ‘finishing schools’ for those who are looking for a ticket to societal connections.

The majority of you who hide behind slogans like ‘diversity’ are anything but diverse. You are so monolithic in your politically correct opinions and pronouncements such that you are no different or less predictable than a group of old Grateful Dead groupies who still drive Volkswagen microbuses with peace symbol bumper stickers. You would have to learn a lot to raise yourself to the level of stupid.

[Carl Vehse]

The Washington Compost is an enemy of the United States of America. The Founding Fathers would probably agree.

[Maris Crane]

The Genius Electoral College is working PRECISELY as it is supposed to work.

Those with no IQ cannot understand what that means, but it is the truth.

No MOB rule for the USA.

[KC Burke]

Another light-weight wanting to sit at the big table.

[a fool in paradise]

Stalinists speak with forked tongue.

[Mr. Blond]

The Founding Fathers would view Universal Suffrage as a failure.

[kvanbrunt2]

The electoral college was designed with two purposes: to separate the branches of government in an attempt to avoid “cabals” and to prevent foreign corruption.>> false premise straw man.

[Republican Wildcat]

This is utterly nonsensical and completely devoid of reality, yet it was written and published in a major newspaper as authoritative. The Founders didn’t intend for it to actually elect a President? The very first President was elected by it and then re-elected. It was quickly amended not long after to prevent constant elections by the House - well within the lifetimes of these same Founders - quite an oddity if it was never meant to elect a President.

[Nifster]

Who is this twerp???

[Political Junkie Too]

Anyone who writes a headline like this is just advertising their ignorance.

-PJ

[KC_Conspirator]

It has been a resounding success.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

The Founders would double down on the Electoral College concept if they saw America today.

• There are probably 40 to 50 million illegals in the USA

• 43 states have a lower population than just Los Angeles county in California

• Los Angeles County has a larger population than the combined population of the most sparsly populated 15 or 16 states

• There are millions of illegal aliens in just Los Angeles county many of whom vote in US elections

• The state of California and other local and state governments encourage voting by illegal aliens either directly or indirectly with weak laws

• Without the Electoral College the direct vote by a handful of the most populous states would outvote the other 40 or 45 states

[hinckley buzzard]

I won’t pay a dollar to read this dreck, but I assume it eventually gets around to the truth, ie that the electoral college was a vehicle for the states to choose the president. It was a fundamental element of federalism to give the states some control over the executive, just as the original choosing of the Senate gave the states some control over the legislative branch.

It was not expected that the people at large would ever have much to do with the distant and mild mannered central government they anticipated, so there was no real need for the people to have to take a hand in its running.

[TBP]

The only “failure”, if you will, is that the Framers intended the electors to choose the president, which is partially undermined by pledged electors.

Technically, nobody here voted for Trump. The vote was for electors who pledged to go to the state capital and vote for Trump. (All but two of the 306 he won did so. Five of Hillary’s 232 electors voted for someone else.)

The Framers did not anticipate that. They anticipated that citizens would pick fellow citizens they trusted, who would then choose the president.

Of course, that went away pretty much after Washington left office.

[Hugin]

The author says the founders did not want either a direct election, or Congress to choose the president. Then he claims they thought Congress would end up choosing most of the time anyway. Since it didn’t end up with Congress deciding they would be disappointed. It’s a failure because it works, therefore it should be abolished in favor of direct election which was never seriously considered and which the college was designed to prevent. That’s some tortured logic there.

[GOPJ]

The founding fathers would be disguested with someone like Joshua Spivak AND the company he works for - according toi an ‘un-named source’.

MLK and George Washington and Mahatma Gandhi wouldn’t like them either. Even Albert Einstein would want Spivak OUT of OUR country ... along with everyone else at the Washington Post...

[MosesKnows]

The electoral college is a failure

Who did it fail?

[Leep]

The Russians agree.